West Indies in New Zealand Test Series - 4th Test
New Zealand won by 190 runs
- Test no. 424 | 1955/56 season
- Played at Eden Park, Auckland
- 9,10,12,13 March 1956 (4-day match)
| New Zealand 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| LSM Miller | c Weekes b Valentine | 47 | 0 | ||||
| SN McGregor | c Smith b Dewdney | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| AR MacGibbon | b Smith | 9 | 100 | 2 | 0 | ||
| DD Taylor | lbw b Valentine | 11 | 0 | ||||
| JR Reid* | hit wicket b Dewdney | 84 | 190 | 11 | 0 | ||
| JEF Beck | c Sobers b Ramadhin | 38 | 124 | 6 | 0 | ||
| SC Guillen† | run out | 6 | 0 | ||||
| ME Chapple | c Atkinson b Dewdney | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| DD Beard | c †Binns b Dewdney | 31 | 94 | 1 | |||
| HB Cave | c Smith b Dewdney | 11 | 0 | ||||
| JC Alabaster | not out | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 7, lb 5) | 12 | |||||
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| Total | (all out; 166.5 overs) | 255 | (1.52 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-9 (McGregor), 2-45 (MacGibbon), 3-66 (Taylor), 4-87 (Miller), 5-191 (Beck), 6-203 (Guillen), 7-205 (Reid), 8-210 (Chapple), 9-250 (Cave), 10-255 (Beard) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DT Dewdney | 19.5 | 11 | 21 | 5 | 1.05 | |||
| DS Atkinson | 32 | 14 | 45 | 0 | 1.40 | |||
| AL Valentine | 41 | 20 | 46 | 2 | 1.12 | |||
| S Ramadhin | 23 | 8 | 41 | 1 | 1.78 | |||
| OG Smith | 31 | 19 | 55 | 1 | 1.77 | |||
| GS Sobers | 20 | 7 | 35 | 0 | 1.75 |
| West Indies 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| HA Furlonge | c †Guillen b Cave | 64 | 211 | 8 | 0 | ||
| BH Pairaudeau | c MacGibbon b Cave | 9 | 0 | ||||
| GS Sobers | c †Guillen b MacGibbon | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| ED Weekes | c †Guillen b MacGibbon | 5 | 0 | ||||
| OG Smith | b Beard | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| DS Atkinson* | b Reid | 28 | 1 | ||||
| AT Roberts | b MacGibbon | 28 | 0 | ||||
| AP Binns† | lbw b MacGibbon | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| S Ramadhin | b Cave | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| AL Valentine | c Taylor b Cave | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| DT Dewdney | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 3, nb 1) | 5 | |||||
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| Total | (all out; 78.3 overs) | 145 | (1.84 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-25 (Pairaudeau), 2-32 (Sobers), 3-46 (Weekes), 4-59 (Smith), 5-94 (Atkinson), 6-139 (Furlonge), 7-140 (Binns), 8-145 (Ramadhin), 9-145 (Roberts), 10-145 (Valentine) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AR MacGibbon | 21 | 5 | 44 | 4 | 2.09 | |||
| HB Cave | 27.3 | 17 | 22 | 4 | 0.80 | |||
| JR Reid | 18 | 5 | 48 | 1 | 2.66 | |||
| DD Beard | 9 | 4 | 20 | 1 | 2.22 | |||
| JC Alabaster | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2.00 |
| New Zealand 2nd innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| LSM Miller | c Weekes b Atkinson | 25 | 100 | 0 | |||
| SN McGregor | c †Binns b Atkinson | 5 | 0 | ||||
| AR MacGibbon | c Weekes b Atkinson | 35 | 75 | 5 | 0 | ||
| DD Taylor | c Valentine b Atkinson | 16 | 0 | ||||
| JR Reid* | c †Binns b Atkinson | 12 | 0 | ||||
| JEF Beck | lbw b Atkinson | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| SC Guillen† | st †Binns b Valentine | 41 | 40 | 3 | 2 | ||
| ME Chapple | lbw b Ramadhin | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| DD Beard | not out | 6 | 0 | ||||
| JC Alabaster | b Atkinson | 5 | 0 | ||||
| HB Cave | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 4, lb 5) | 9 | |||||
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| Total | (9 wickets dec; 80 overs) | 157 | (1.96 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-14 (McGregor), 2-61 (Miller), 3-66 (MacGibbon), 4-91 (Taylor), 5-100 (Beck), 6-102 (Reid), 7-109 (Chapple), 8-146 (Guillen), 9-155 (Alabaster) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DT Dewdney | 12 | 5 | 22 | 0 | 1.83 | |||
| DS Atkinson | 40 | 21 | 53 | 7 | 1.32 | |||
| AL Valentine | 6 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 4.83 | |||
| S Ramadhin | 18 | 6 | 26 | 1 | 1.44 | |||
| OG Smith | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 4.50 |
| West Indies 2nd innings (target: 268 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| HA Furlonge | c MacGibbon b Beard | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| BH Pairaudeau | b Cave | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| DS Atkinson* | c Chapple b Cave | 10 | 0 | |||||
| ED Weekes | c McGregor b Alabaster | 31 | 87 | 7 | 0 | |||
| OG Smith | b Cave | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GS Sobers | run out | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| AT Roberts | b Beard | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| AP Binns† | b Alabaster | 20 | 65 | 0 | ||||
| S Ramadhin | c Miller b Beard | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| AL Valentine | st †Guillen b Cave | 5 | 0 | |||||
| DT Dewdney | not out | 4 | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 0 | |||||||
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| Total | (all out; 45.1 overs) | 77 | (1.70 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Pairaudeau), 2-16 (Furlonge), 3-16 (Atkinson), 4-16 (Smith), 5-18 (Sobers), 6-22 (Roberts), 7-68 (Weekes), 8-68 (Ramadhin), 9-68 (Binns), 10-77 (Valentine) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AR MacGibbon | 6 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 2.66 | |||
| HB Cave | 13.1 | 9 | 21 | 4 | 1.59 | |||
| JR Reid | 6 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 2.33 | |||
| DD Beard | 15 | 7 | 22 | 3 | 1.46 | |||
| JC Alabaster | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0.80 |
| Match details |
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Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat Series West Indies won the 4-match series 3-1 |
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Test debut
AT Roberts
(West Indies) |
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Umpires
JC Harris and TM Pearce |
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Close of play 9 Mar day 1 - New Zealand 1st innings 203/6 (JR Reid 82*) 10 Mar day 2 - West Indies 1st innings 96/5 (HA Furlonge 48*, AT Roberts 1*) 11 Mar rest day 12 Mar day 3 - New Zealand 2nd innings 61/2 (AR MacGibbon 30*) 13 Mar day 4 - West Indies 2nd innings 77 (45.1 ov) - end of match |
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